“All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.”

“And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.”

“Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.”

“Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.”

“'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.”

“Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.”

“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”

“I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.”

“I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.”

“I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.”

“I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.”

“I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.”

“I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.”

“I'm a nut, but not just a nut.”

“I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.”

“Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.”

“No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.”

“Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.”

“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”

“There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.”

“There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.”

“We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.”

“When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.”

“When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.”

“While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.”

“Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.”